Diabetic Youth Foundation

My good friend Carole has two boys and a girl.  Her oldest child, Tyler, is 10 and her youngest child, Ryan, is 3.  They both have Type 1 Diabetes.  They are in the midst of preparing for the 2nd Annual Families in the Forest Walk to raise money for children with Diabetes go to a special kids summer camp.  It is a great organization and I whole heartedly support it.  Please check out the page and consider donating.  Even $5 may not seem  huge for one person, but within the pot of donations, it's huge.  Every penny counts!

http://www.firstgiving.com/honsal

How the Table Turns

One of my all time favorite books that I have read to ALL my children as they have grown:

 

Kiss Good Night

This is such a sweet book and fortunately each of my kids have loved it too.

Tonight, Mia picked this book to read to me.  We haven't read it in a long while and it was so heartwarming to hear her read it so smoothly to me.  She has taken reading by storm and I'm so proud of the huge accomplishment she has made this year.  She has done so very well and her confidence has quadrupled as a 1st grader.  So awesome to have her reading to me now.  

Let's take a little trip

 

Alcatraz

We took the kids to San Francisco for the night and were tourists for a couple of days.  It was so much fun.  We wandered around Pier 39, Ghiradelli Square, rode the trolley cars to Union Square and back, and dinner at the Rainforest Cafe.  The next day we played at the Discovery Kids Museum, walked half way across the Golden Gate Bridge, drove the crooked-est street in the world, and went up to Coit Tower.  The kids loved every minute of it!  We are definitely doing this more often!  At least each time Mike get's more than one day off of work at a time!

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

At the Discovery Museum, Mia went to town on the hula hoops.  She was like a circus act.  She started with one hoop and people were clapping.  I put another one on over her head and it didn't phase her to keep two going.  Then Cal threw another one over her head and she amazed the crowd with three hoops going!  It was awesome!

 

  

Careful, you'll get 'yer melon stuck!

 

  

The GG Bridge taken from Telegraph Hill.

 

Cal, getting a talking to after a time out.  This has become one of my favorite pics lately.  I think I captured quite the emotion here. ;)